Sentences with phrase «of grammarian»

He observed that «you go to every polytechnic is this country and you realise that they are offering degrees in marketing, personnel management and public relations all along the lines of grammarian schools.

But because the usage is a dictation of grammarians and not our instinctive one, it can be reversed.

The word «allegory» here has only a literary resemblance to the allegory of the grammarians, which, Cicero tells us, «consists in saying one thing to make something else understood.»

Not exact matches

So, if you use the correct version you'll sound intelligent to the grammarians of the world but you risk alienating a certain percentage of people who will not understand your meaning.

While the linguist takes the parlance of average literate adults as the yardstick of usage, Gwynne's grammarian balances it with the best that has been said and written, John Bull and Samuel Johnson.

When crotchety old grammarians complain about the debasement of language, often they are merely deploring change per se; other times they wax wroth over what seem to most of us relatively insignificant losses in precision, clarity, or beauty.

And, if the claims of certain universal grammarians be proven true, we might need to go to the broadest comparative context of all — the human language capacity itself.

He gave orders that «in each bishopric and in each monastery let the psalms, the notes, the chant, calculation and grammar be taught and carefully corrected books be available».6 He also set up a school at his palace at Aachen and imported talent from different parts of Europe, including Alcuin (c.735 - 804), who had been master of the school at York, and the grammarian Paul the Deacon (c.120 - c. 800) from Italy.

These men were largely ignored, but later on, male - centered grammarians took up the cause, and insistence on the use of «he» became a strong issue among grammarians in the early 19th century.

Despite all this, 19th century British novels show the usage of «they» and «he» with a singular antecedent to be about equal; Americans, however, being less sure of their natural language instincts and depending more on grammarians» rules when writing formally, have been more rigid about the «he.»

Two earlier grammarians had attempted to bend «the language in order to enforce the use of «he» because, they said, «he» reflected a «natural order» and «the worthier is to be preferred.»

A rigorous grammarian, and a serious and intimidatingly well - read Catholic, Mary Ellen had wide and unusual interests, such as the great ocean liners of the past, and was part of a reading group that included Isaac Asimov.

Use of «whom» is still on the decline, despite the efforts of some 19th century grammarians.

There are some who are discouraged by grammarians that cruise blogs in search of run - on sentences and tense errors.

At any rate, the appearance of today's grammarians, in their hoodies and sneaks, bears little resemblance to that of their forerunners.

«World over, we seem intent on splintering ourselves into as many sub-groups as it will take for us to feel comfortable in our skins again,» writes Harmony Siganporia, who in the aftermath of Brexit revisits the teachings of poet, folklorist, scholar and grammarian AK Ramanujan to further explore the meanings of context - free and context - sensitive cultures.

This doesn't mean writers are required to get degrees in philology or etymology or be grammarians (though a little knowledge of all these fields helps); rather, it is the interest in and attention to words and sentences, to how we communicate by these means, that sets writers apart from, say, train engineers.

I mean, the grammarians of the day (such as they are) seem to consider them interchangeable, but traditionally lend is the verb and loan is the noun.

Death is something of which you could never even conceive, and please note, mister grammarian, that I did not conclude that phrase with a preposition, you human beings only know the small everyday death that is me, the death which, even in the very worst disasters, is incapable of preventing life from continuing, one day you will find out about Death with a capital D, and at that moment, you will understand the real difference between the relative and the absolute, between full and empty, between still alive and no longer alive....»

However, in this and all things, I'm prepared to be overruled by one of James Scott Bell's stogie - chomping grammarian ladies, so haul in the expert witnesses if need be and we'll submit evidentiary confections for their entertainment.

Copy editors, on the other hand, are ace grammarians and are looking at the text line by line from a technical standpoint: Is the writing comprehensible and free of typos?

He's even learned to use the computer... he's not much of a speller or grammarian but he's found both the «delete» and «send to printer» buttons!

Re # 380: I realize Judy is an experienced scientist, not a high school grammarian, but one of the latter might have a different view of the key passage from Chu:

[Response: You are running a risk discussing language with me, son of a professor of English and grandson of a strict grammarian!

For years, grammarians and writing gurus have bemoaned misuses of quotation marks — and these misuses are legion.

When a commenter ripped one of my posts as being «larded with stilted turns of phrase and grammatical errors,» he was incorrect about the grammar part (a trained grammarian, without my prompting, reviewed my post and found only one questionable prepositional choice) but was certainly entitled to his opinion about my writing style.

An etymologist or grammarian might agree with the appellants that a vane of any type is still a vane.

However, the patent specification is not addressed to grammarians, etymologists or to the public generally, but to skilled individuals sufficiently versed in the art to which the patent relates to enable them on a technical level to appreciate the nature and description of the invention...

And then the third one is — and someone who has a law degree also — I think that that also is important, you could have levels that would be of editing, that would be handled by people who are not lawyers, but you should definitely have as your main editor or editors people who are also lawyers, but once you have that person who is a grammarian and a lawyer, and a great writer, how much you are going to pay these people?

There's also a grammarian on board, to help members with niggly little things like poor use of grammar, or pronunciation.